Roland J. Pellegrin

Absentee-Owned Corporations and Community Power Structure

In a southern metropolis absente-owned corporations play a vital role in civic affairs and policies. Executives, in representing their organizations and in furthering their own careers, seek to protect the corporations interests and to foster and maintain conservative, business-oriented values and policies. The executive has a variety of motivations for civic participation is part of his expected role. His behavior is controlled by the corporation he represents.

Executives and Supervisors: Contrasting Definitions of Career Success

In exploring the thesis that attitudes and values are basic determinants of career patterns, this paper empirically identifies and analyzes differential definitions of career success held by top-level executives and first-line supervisors. The executive, needing esteem and personal accomplishment, regards the achievement of high position essential for success. The supervisor, with a lower level of aspiration and less mobility drive, defines success in terms of security, respect, and happiness. While the executive is motivated toward continually higher achievement, the supervisor does not establish successively higher goals after attaining his modest ambitions. Implications for current theory concerning job motivation and morale are discussed. Roland J. Pellegrin is associate professor of sociology at Louisiana State University; Charles H. Coates is assistant dean of the College of Military Science and assistant professor of sociology at the University of Maryland.

The Achievement of High Statuses and Leadership in the Small Group

T THIS paper has three purposes: to develop an approach to the study of intragroup status achievement and leadership which focuses primarily upon the group itself and only secondarily upon the individual members and their personal characteristics; to summarize an application of this approach in a larger study conducted by the writer, which seeks to advance hypotheses concerning the techniques or methods by which the constituent statuses of group structure are achieved by the membership; and to indicate the implications involved for sociological theory and research.